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Re: Show HN: GetHacker - Paid, short term projects for developers

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Post by cimbal »

It seems the site is using WEBrick as the webserver. Replacing it with Thin should help a lot performance wise. Heroku has as section in their docs on how to change that: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/rails3#webserver

Also, letting the application serve all the static assets has an even bigger impact on the number of dynos you need. I'm not a heroku user, but it seems there are some good solutions to this problem, like https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/cdn-asset-host-rails31

Re: Show HN: GetHacker - Paid, short term projects for developers

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Post by jihip »

jmonegro wrote: post #57
humanfromearth wrote: post #53

250USD minimum for a project? How exactly did you come up with this price?

Randomly. What are your thoughts on it?

think it's reasonable. I personally think it's a good bar as this will be 3-5 dev hours which is about a day's work. Given you match projects with the right domain experts, this can be a good substantial project.

Re: Show HN: GetHacker - Paid, short term projects for developers

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Post by jihip »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #48

Clients are fed up with broken promises and shoddy work from the hordes of "freelance" sites and low-cost development shops around the world. Similarly, the best Indie designers and developers struggle to be matched with great clients and differentiate themselves online. Many have tried to fix this and some succeeded to an extend. The deeper issue with such an initiative is how can you maintain the quality, that you…

Just curious, do you have a list of other websites that does similar things? This article has made me quite interested in it (i'm a developer) so I'd like to know more of that market. Thanks!

Re: Show HN: GetHacker - Paid, short term projects for developers

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Post by sjs382 »

jmonegro wrote: post #60
DoubleMalt wrote: post #50

Tried to fill out my profile after initially only saving my email address, but the textfields don't take my input anymore ...

Sorry about that, I'll look into it.

Having the same issue. The textarea fields take my input but the input fields don't.

Re: Show HN: GetHacker - Paid, short term projects for developers

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Post by jmonegro »

cimbal wrote: post #61

It seems the site is using WEBrick as the webserver. Replacing it with Thin should help a lot performance wise. Heroku has as section in their docs on how to change that: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/rails3#webserver Also, letting the application serve all the static assets has an even bigger impact on the number of dynos you need. I'm not a heroku user, but it seems there are some good solutions to this pro…

Thanks for the feedback. I've begun addressing the performance issues.

Re: Show HN: GetHacker - Paid, short term projects for developers

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Post by jameswburke »

cpfohl wrote: post #36

Personal Opinion Alert, take with grain of salt: I'm not likely to give out my personal information (email address, github account, etc) just to see a list of projects. I'd certainly give you my information to apply for one. Was the list of projects public, I'd be more likely to sign up for "interesting" ones be sent to me. Our definitions of interesting might be different, and seeing a public list would make me more…

I found myself okay with it because they'll send the developers a list of projects. From there I apply on ones I'm interested in, rather than the other way around.

We'll see how it goes this Saturday. As a freelancer I'm always open to new client discovery.

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